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Mediterranean civilizations: Greece - Coggle Diagram
Mediterranean civilizations: Greece
GREEKS EXPANSION
Political, economic and cultural recovering from the Dark Ages.
Formation of the “polis”(cities-states).
All new “polis” were independent but shared language and religión.
They started to establish different colonies over the Mediterranean sea: Jonia, Athens and Alejandria.
-Also known as Archaic Period.
GREECE ECONOMY
Greece’s economy was mainly maritime and commercial.
Agriculture was not common due to its geographical location.
During the classical period, Greek agriculture was adapted to the existing relief, and in the valleys, where water was more abundant, wheat and vegetables were grown. In the lands of the mountain slopes, vines and olive trees were cultivated.
From the second half of the 7th century B.C. the Greeks began to use currency in their exchanges.
MYCENEAN
MIONAN (CRETE):
It was) a thalocrassy whose capital was Knossos
They dominated the Agean Sea until about 1400 B.C.
-The Achaeans, people assaulted and sacked Knossos, and replaced the thalassocracy
MICENAE:
It was a kingdom created by the Achaens 400 years later after replacing Crete thalassocracy.
GOLDEN AGE
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ATHENS AND SPARTA LED TO THE DESTRUCTIVE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
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Other facts
In addition to their concepts of beauty, their statues and their architectural forms, the Greeks left us their alphabet, adapted from the Phoenician, to which they added vowels and which served as the basis for the Roman alphabet we use today.